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The city of Rome grew up in a very unplanned and disorganized way, quite different from the neat grid-pattern of other Roman towns. It was also extremely crowded city, with approximately 1,000,000 people crammed into a small area. The river Tiber bound the city on the western side. Ships brought goods from the coastal port of Ostia and from the midlands of Italy to the docks and riverside markets. The river was divided for a short distance by the Tiber Island (Insula Tiberina), further upstream. This extended island, Fig 1, had been built up to look like a ship, complete with a rostrum, (an ornamental prow); it contained a temple of Aesculapius, the god of healing, to which many sick people came, in hope of a cure. In our study book, Cambridge Latin course book 4, there is a story where a lady philosopher, called Euphrosyne and her slave-girl...

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